Ezra Levant defends Rebel News against a Toronto police investigation for Islamophobic ads—allegedly created by Canadians Opposed to the Occupation of Our Streets—that exposed pro-Hamas gang violence downtown, while criticizing "two-tier policing" that ignores actual extremist threats. He ties the $25,000 bounty on his head (by Trudeau ally Mohamed Faki) to broader foreign interference claims, spotlighting Liberal MPs like Handong’s alleged PRC ties via Noak Academy and Tencent-backed events. Levant warns against blind trust in Poilievre, urging Rebel News’ accountability-first approach, and frames the investigation as a politically weaponized attack, urging support at savethetruck.com while questioning Canada’s democratic stability under Senate obstruction risks. [Automatically generated summary]
Rebel News is being investigated by police for a hate crime.
It's unbelievable, but it's happening.
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All right, here's today's podcast.
Tonight, Rebel News is being investigated by police for a hate crime.
I'll tell you the terrible details and how we're fighting back.
It's June 20th, and this is the Ezra Levant Show.
Shame on you, you censorious bug.
I've got some breaking news.
It's another censorship battle, probably our biggest one ever.
I need your help to save free speech in Canada.
The Toronto police are officially investigating Rebel News for running these ads by local community activists on our Rebel News billboard truck.
The ads were created by a group called Canadians Opposed to the Occupation of Our Streets and Campuses.
It's a bit of a mouthful, but it tells you everything.
They're anonymous because they know they'd face retaliation for speaking out.
That's how bad things are these days.
The ads just show actual footage of what the pro-Hamas gangs have done to Toronto, including committing real crimes ignored by the police and politicians.
In the case of this particular ad, the images included pro-Hamas gangs shutting down the streets in downtown Toronto.
Here's the official police announcement declaring those ads Islamophobic and suggesting that a hate crime has been committed, a crime.
The Toronto police don't think the pro-Hamas street gangs themselves are committing hate crimes.
They think the ad we ran on our truck is a hate crime.
In Trudeau's Canada, you're allowed to support terrorism.
You're not allowed to criticize terrorism.
That sounds more like 1984 than 2024.
Here, let me give you some more background, and then I'll tell you how you can help us fight back at a special website we've set up called save thetruck.com.
But it's really about more than just a truck.
It's about cancel culture and the weaponization of hate speech laws and two-tier policing.
I've hired a lawyer and we're obviously going to fight because this is still Canada, not Gaza.
We still have free speech here for now.
It's actually pretty serious.
If convicted under the law for hate speech, I could be jailed for up to two years just for running that ad.
And don't think they won't try.
Our Rebel News reporters have been arrested by Toronto police several times just for asking Hamas supporters questions.
The police hate us because we're not silent and obedient, which is what they've told the Jewish community to be.
The police chief isn't dumb.
He's doing what his political bosses want.
Here's Toronto's mayor denouncing the truck.
No surprise, she's a pro-Hamas NDP mayor, an extremist who refused to attend key Jewish community events this year.
Goes much higher than the mayor, though.
Here's a tweet by a pro-Hamas Trudeau member of parliament who wrote, There needs to be an investigation and there needs to be justice.
Can you imagine that same member of parliament hosted a Holocaust denier on Parliament Hill, but she wants us prosecuted for hate speech?
Other Trudeau supporters joined in too, including Trudeau's personal friend, Mohamed Faki.
He owns a chain of restaurants called Paramount Foods, and he notoriously said he doesn't want Jews as customers.
This is the guy calling for a hate speech investigation?
He's even put a $25,000 bounty on my head.
Easy, Mohamed.
You're not in Lebanon anymore.
But the Toronto police are a full-on DEI police force.
They're woke.
Six months ago, Trudeau had a highly irregular meeting with Toronto's police chief, Myron Demkew.
Demq's office refuses to release any notes from that meeting, but it's pretty clear, since that meeting, the police have not arrested pro-Hamas street gangs in the city because they're Trudeau's political base.
Oh, by the way, there are other billboard trucks driving around Toronto too.
Here's one with pro-Hamas and anti-Semitic ads on them.
Police are fine with those.
Only people who say things that criticize Trudeau or his Hamas allies get investigated by police.
Trudeau truly is turning Canada into a banana republic or Gaza if he could.
I think I know why people feel so desperate that they're taking out anonymous ads on our truck.
They feel completely abandoned and ignored by the institutions they used to rely on.
They want to speak out because no one is speaking for them.
I know the feeling.
The reason we bought the truck in the first place is because all the truck companies we used to work with, we used to rent the trucks, they told us they're too scared to criticize Hamas because they're worried their trucks will be attacked and their drivers could be injured.
Police should be embarrassed that they're investigating the messenger instead of understanding the message.
Just a few weeks ago, masked Hamas gunmen shot at a Jewish girls' school in Toronto.
The Hamas encampment at the University of Toronto has thugs checking if students are Jews or not before letting them pass.
There was an insane eight-hour anti-Semitic hate march outside a Thornhill synagogue.
Hamas supporters walk through Jewish residential neighborhoods in North Toronto, shrieking at Jews in their homes.
This happens every day.
The police just stand there and do nothing.
Sometimes they actually bring the Hamas gangs coffee, like this, when they blocked a road into a Jewish residential neighborhood.
We've used our billboard truck to talk about these issues for months, including our campaign to deport foreign nationals who support Hamas.
We also have a campaign against Trudeau's crazy plan to bring thousands of Gaza refugees to Canada.
In the case today, we were running the ads for another group of loyal Canadian citizens who felt totally abandoned by the police and politicians.
Real Canadians express themselves not by shooting schools or taking over campuses.
They run ads on trucks like ours.
It's called free speech.
You can look it up in our Charter of Rights.
I've been fighting against censorship my whole life.
I'm not going to stop now.
There's a crime wave in Toronto and across Canada.
And it's not ads from scared citizens worried about Hamas gangs.
It's the Hamas gangs themselves.
I'm going to fight this like hell.
You know I will.
We're going to take the truck out again because I'm a free man in a free country, at least for now.
I have broken no laws.
And if the Toronto police think they can bully us into silence, we'll bring it on.
I still believe enough in our country and even in our courts to know that this trumped-up censorship will not stand.
If you want to help me, I need your help.
I need your help to pay for our lawyer to fight this police investigation.
If you want to help save me and save our truck, go to save the truck.com.
And at that same page, you can sign up for email updates so I can let you know what happens as this proceeds.
I was born and raised in Canada, and so was my dad, and so was his dad, all the way back to 1903, before Alberta was even a province.
This country is built on free speech.
And I'll be damned if some Hamas thugs and their obedient shills in Trudeau's police force think they can scare me into silence.
If you want to support me and I need your support, go to save the truck.com.
You won't just be saving a truck or even just saving me.
You'll be saving freedom of speech in our great country.
Go to save the truck.com.
me criticize the regime media or the mainstream media or the subsidized media but you do hear me once in a while single out excellent journalists such as steve chase and bob fife of the globe and Not only did they do great journalism about the firing of Jody Wilson Raybel at the hands of Justin Trudeau, but they've been excellent on the China files.
Chinese Interference Revelations00:12:39
They really have taken stories and thrust them into the center of our political discussion in a way that smaller or independent media just simply don't have the power to do.
That said, I think it's accurate to say that citizen journalists and independent journalists have done the lion's share of the reporting, even if they don't have a prestigious platform like the Globe and Mail.
The Bureau, which is a new independent substack, has done excellent work on Chinese interference and foreign interference in Canada.
But if I had to name the single person who has done more digging into China's, and by China, I mean the Communist Party of China and their attempt to interfere in our democracy.
If I had to name the number one journalist in the country, it would be our guest today, Andy Lee, who has an uncanny ability to follow the money, to follow the social media, including deep into social media apps that most of us don't know anything about.
Their Chinese social media joining us now is our friend Andy Lee.
Andy, I'm heaping praise on you, but it's not just to puff you up.
You are an indispensable read.
I follow you closely on Twitter.
Welcome back to the show.
Thank you.
Thank you for having me back.
It's been a while and a lot's gone on.
Everything you've said has borne fruit.
Everything you warned about has come true.
If you're like me, you hate saying, I told you so, because you've always been warning us of bad things.
Yeah, I mean, this isn't a nice time to say I told you so, unfortunately, because, you know, a lot of people were hoping that certain people would be exonerated of some serious accusations during the inquiry.
And that happened to a degree when we had Justin Trudeau's special rapporteur, David Johnson.
He says some things that exonerated some individuals who were named specifically by Sam Cooper and the Bureau.
That being that Handong had a hand in foreign interference, and that we have these at least 11 candidates in the GTA alone that seemed to have been the beneficiary of foreign interference from the People's Republic of China.
So unfortunately, that inquiry didn't seem to go deep enough.
We don't know if David Johnson saw the same files that were released in the recent report by the NSI COP.
So we don't know if he saw the same documents or if he saw a sanitized version of documents.
And he also said that he had time constraints.
So maybe he didn't view the same information.
But two vastly different reports surfaced in whatever event.
And, you know, the most recent one was very, very firm that yes, you know, these allegations, there was definitely substance behind them.
And this was brought up.
So that's kind of where we're at now is trying to reconcile, well, how are people coming to different conclusions?
And we saw that by party leaders the other day.
We had Elizabeth May saying that she wasn't concerned at all.
And then we had Jack Meet Singh come up and say something totally different.
And he felt that somebody should be charged with treason and that Handong should not be allowed to rejoin the caucus.
So there's a lot going on and we don't get to see the documents, which is really, really important for us to do the digging ourselves.
Sometimes retroactively, you can go back and find the things that weren't detailed in the reports.
And we've done that a number of times.
We did that and Rebel News published that when Michael Chong was targeted and they said that there was no evidence.
You know, they suspected it was a PRC state sponsored campaign.
But we actually went into WeChat and we found the exact actors and traced it directly back to the PRC.
And WeChat is one of those Chinese social media that I think most Canadians don't know anything about.
It's amazing you can navigate them.
I want to push pause on you for one second, Andy, because you said so many things because you're in the center of it.
But I just want to recap for some of our viewers who are maybe more casual followers.
Your reference to David Johnston is he was the hand-picked cleanup crew that Trudeau said, oh, he'll look into these interference accusations and get to the bottom of it.
And he gave an all-clear.
It was only when the, I suppose, deep state of Canada's security intelligence services said, that's insane.
We've got to leak the truth that this committee was struck to look into it.
And there's been shocking allegations.
And you're referring to a report that has not yet been released.
And so we have this strange situation where we have to rely on other people reading the report and interpreting it.
And Elizabeth May says there's nothing to worry about.
Jai Meet Singh says there's traders.
Trudeau's pretty mum on it.
I just wanted to, am I accurate in sort of summarizing how this story has gone from nothing to cover up to holy moly, there's a lot there?
Yeah, well, I think it was always cover-up.
And a lot of people tried to discredit the reporting that came out and discredit the CESIS leaks.
And we've heard this all along that, you know, intelligence is not evidence and it was just information gathering and they're not substantiated.
Well, now these claims are looking fairly substantiated.
So somebody's been vindicated.
It certainly hasn't been Handong.
That's for sure.
You know, good for Sam Cooper for sticking to his guns.
Of course, he's got these lawsuits against him for his reporting, unfortunately.
It was really disappointing to see people and also other journalists turn against one of their own.
Or did they do?
Tell me a little bit about that.
Yeah, well, I mean, you know, he was ostracized.
And again, a lot of people tried to downplay the information and say that, you know, it was just a memo and then it wasn't something that was seen or it was something that was maybe not seen by the right people.
It was something that was not taken seriously.
So I wanted to expand and I wanted to give him even more firepower, specifically about the allegations on Handong and given that he has this lawsuit against him.
And so one of the allegations that we've heard is that we had foreign international students who were busted into Handong's writing to vote for him in his liberal nomination contest and that they weren't from his riding and that perhaps they were directed to do this by the consulate.
But again, that's very vague, right?
There's no details.
So what we did is we went and we found the actual academy.
And when I say we, I say the people like me and I have several people who help me as well.
We go into WeChat, we look for the exact details.
So we did find details on that academy.
It was called the Noak Academy.
It used to be New Oriental International College.
It's based in Markham.
But when you really dig into it, it's got very, very close ties to the People's Republic of China and officials in China.
They go to events hosted by Tencent and things like that.
And so this was the academy, one of the places that bust the students in.
They've got reviews from the consulate right on their website.
And the other fascinating thing about this particular academy is that Justin Trudeau himself has visited there and he's invited them to several events.
What are the odds?
And Handong has been there.
A lot of the Liberal Party have been there.
So, you know, there was a briefing somewhere that said, hold on, we think that this academy has assisted this candidate in doing something that's illegal, right?
That's breaking election rules.
You can't just get students to go vote in whatever riding they want in a liberal nomination contest.
So at some point, and they would have known what academy it was and they would have known that it was the academy that they all visited, the Noak Academy.
So that was something fantastic that we've been working on.
And I was so glad that that came up.
And especially, you know, that the prime minister is aware of this academy.
So I can't say who saw the briefing, but somebody definitely saw it, thought that this was the academy that was implicated and decided that this was a nothing burger, you know, knew the people.
He knows the CEO and decided that this wasn't important and discounted it and allowed him to run and didn't exclude him from the nomination contest.
Let me ask you a question.
It's pretty wild, the amount of cover-up.
It's crazy that the PRC, the People's Republic of China, has a connection with that actual school.
There's so many things that you can imagine they did through that institution.
But let me ask you about something that I think how the story has evolved.
And you tell me if I've got this right.
I think the early versions of this story were: oh, there was help for certain pro-China MPs, but the, or certain pro-China candidates get rid of some candidates that were critical of communist China, put in friendlier ones, but that the role of the Canadian candidates was pretty passive.
They just sort of sat back while the People's Republic of China did the heavy lifting.
But what I'm, what I think I'm hearing now, Andy, tell me if I'm wrong, is that there has been active participation by these Canadian MPs.
So it's not just, oh, gee, that election went better than I thought.
I'll be me now.
It's, oh, that election went better than I thought.
Now I will actually collude with, assist, brief, help, be actively engaged with the foreign entity, whether it's China or Iran or others, we don't know.
So it seems to me, and tell me if I miss, listen, you're so deep in this stuff, you would know better than me.
But there's the idea of traitor and treason, those are words that I almost never use.
I see them being used by serious people now.
That suggests people are actively helping foreign countries.
They're not just passively accepting help, they're giving help.
Am I wrong?
Yeah, I mean, we talked about this a little bit when Olivia Chow, and we did a great article about this, and Olivia Chow and her race and how she accepted help from this United Front group, you know, who's affiliated with the United Front, very, very close to Chinese diplomats, very, very close to the Chinese government.
You know, and she was just kind of like, well, you know, this is the game that you have to play.
You have to get their support.
So, yeah, I mean, you know, that's passive, but we're talking about an entirely different level where the accusations are that, you know, there was some tip for tat.
We'll help you get elected and throw our support and get our groups to throw their support behind you.
And then maybe you're going to do something for us.
Now, we don't know exactly what that looks like, right?
Does that look like abstaining from voting on the Uyghur genocide, right?
Is that the help?
Plugging the Beijing Olympics?
Is that the help?
Maybe keeping quiet about, you know, certain investments that are tied to, we just found one that, and I'm digging into this, and this is just fascinating because it's somebody that Justin Trudeau knows.
And she actually accompanied him on his 2017 trip to China.
You know, her company is now actively working with the People's Liberation Army, their military in Xinjiang, right?
So are we, what does that look like?
So we don't have a really good definition, but we do see serious people who, you know, do know the difference between treasonous and not treasonous dipping into that territory where, you know, we might actually be looking at something that's prosecutable, even though we have very, very weak laws right now.
And, you know, somebody was named as directly colluding, and it was a former MP.
I'm not going to say who it was exactly, but we do know that there was a foreign MP who rallied on behalf of a certain mayoral candidate that we did an article on, you know, and delivered a letter to the embassy on behalf of this mayoral candidate who has very, very close ties to the Chinese government.
And he was caught by that and caught up in that.
Finally Catching Up00:04:21
Why he was specifically lobbying for this particular person who happens to be charged with fraud and embezzlement is questionable, right?
It's a good question to ask.
How do you find yourself with a letter from somebody who's facing very, very serious charges and hand delivering it to PRC diplomats?
Wow.
And of course, he's not there anymore.
But I mean, yeah, it's very, very serious.
And they're making jokes about it, right?
Boohoo, no.
It's not boohoo.
It's not boohoo to Kenny Chu, right?
Kenny Chu, there's a very excellent chance that he lost his seat because he tried to bring in a foreign agent registry.
And that's not just speculative anymore.
We've traced some of those ties and looked at the campaigns.
There's no doubt that there was one against him.
Did it end up ultimately costing him his seat?
It's hard to say, but it certainly contributed to it.
And one seat is too much to be lost because of foreign interference.
Well, even if it wasn't effective, this campaign, it sounds like it was very effective, it's dead wrong and has to be called out.
And like you suggest, maybe it hasn't been called out.
Maybe that's part of the collusion itself.
Andy, what's the best way to follow your stuff?
Tell me your Twitter account again.
So I'm Real Andy Lee Show.
Real Andy Lee Show.
That's A-N-D-Y-L-E-E Show.
And I follow you.
You've got a huge follower count.
And I think it's because you do real research.
I mean, you like to fight.
You're great on Twitter and I enjoy following it.
But the number one thing I like about your Twitter account is you, as the kids say, show the receipts.
You bring the receipts.
You have the proof, as the kids say.
And I think you have been ahead of the curve on this.
We've got to go now, but please keep in touch with us.
And if you have the time, I know you're so busy on this file.
We would love to publish more of your work on the website because it really, you've been a year or two ahead of things.
It's great to see you.
I'm glad you still got that fighting spirit.
And it sounds like the good guys are finally catching up on this story.
Yeah, yeah, it's a fascinating time for sure.
We're definitely trending in the right direction.
I'm looking forward to see what Justice Hoag is going to do with this information.
I definitely think that she deserves more time to re-examine it.
And maybe she wants to recall some people that she's already examined and put them back up on the witness stand based on new information, which she's trying to obtain right now.
And yeah, I'm really, really glad that, again, because so much of this is murky for us, right?
Because it's redacted or it's vague.
We don't get the specifics, right?
We don't see the briefings.
So it's really, really nice to be able to pinpoint and say, hold on, well, this was the academy that busted students for hand-on, and these are the ties to the PRC.
So this is where the allegations stem from.
So this is evidence backing the intelligence, finally, right?
And so the more that we can actually do that and pinpoint that, even if we're in the dark, the more that we can, you know, help people understand and legitimize the intelligence and hopefully to a point where we can get some actual action on it and maybe even prosecution.
We're going to have to leave it there, Andy Lee.
Great to see you again, folks.
Again, that's Real Andy Lee Show on Twitter.
highly recommend.
Hey, welcome back.
Letters.
Wes Brown says, I like Pierre, but isn't it a bit early for a biography?
Let him win the election first, at least.
You know, I see your point, as in you're saying if he wins, that's an if, and the big chapter of his life is yet to be written.
So yeah, you're right, but I think it's pretty standard fair that when a politician is about to run for that final Game of Thrones, they publish a book or have someone write a book about them.
So either it's an autobiography, almost always ghostwritten, or it's a biography written by someone who, I'm not going to say is sympathetic, but has access to them.
Because voters want to know.
Pierre Polyev's Perfect Imperfection00:03:56
I think millions of Canadians are getting used to the idea that Pierre Polyev might be our next prime minister.
And for those who like to read and for those who want to go a little deeper and those who really like him or those who are worried, I think they will want to read a book.
And I'm just so glad that Andrew wrote it.
I mean, don't you think that's better than if, say, Rosemary Barton or Althea Raj from the CBC did?
I meant what I said.
I'm thrilled that it was a good guy who wrote the book and not a bad guy.
Franz Anton Mesmer says, don't hold your breath.
Where's the heartbeat law?
Why hasn't he announced the UN migrant quotas?
Why won't he decriminalize gun owners?
I could go on and on.
Okay, you're saying that, if I can quote the Bible, don't put your trust in princes.
You're saying don't have a hey geography, which is the word that Andrew used yesterday.
That's a great word.
You're right.
He's not perfect.
And one of the things that one of the ways politics has sometimes been defined is the art of the possible.
And that's not just some Airy Fairy slogan.
It means what can you do?
There's certain things you want to do, but you cannot.
What do you want to do that you can?
It's not everything.
It's like a Venn diagram.
Here's what's possible.
Here's what you said you would do.
How much of that loop can you get overlapping?
And there are certain things that I don't know if Pierre Polyev will be able to do at all.
For example, a lot of people note that the Senate is still dominated by Justin Trudeau's picks because Stephen Harper didn't fill the Senate on his way out the door.
So I think there's going to be a constitutional crisis.
Pierre Polyev is going to have a massive mandate if things hold up in the polls.
But the Senate, unelected, unaccountable, appointed for life, partisan, in some forms corrupt, is in a position to say no to everything.
It could be a crisis.
D.L. Carboneau says he is a conservative, not small C conservative, told the trucker convoy to go home after three days.
Controlled opposition.
You know, there's another saying I'm going to use, which is don't make the perfect the enemy of the good.
It's related to don't put your trust in princes.
Here's what I know about Pierre Polyev.
And as I said to Andrew, I've known Pierre Polyev since he was a student.
He's talked about freedom and conservative ideas consistently.
Now, you're saying that he told the truckers to go home.
I don't remember the exact details of that, but I'm sure you're right.
Still, what a change from Aaron O'Doole, who banned all his MPs even talking to truckers.
There's only one way to know what Pierre Polyev would be like in power, and that is for him to get into power and for us to observe.
And do you know the rebel news obligation when there's a conservative in power?
I think you do because it's what we do when we've had Jason Kenney veer off course or Doug Ford veer off course or other conservatives a name only.
We hold them to account.
So I am not here to pitch Pierre Polyev to you as a choice.
I don't have a party membership in any party.
I don't want to because I want the freedom that I have to criticize any and all politicians of all stripes.
And you know that we do.
That's our show for today.
I hope you check out save the truck.com.
It's been a big and busy day for us today.
I've never been the target of a police investigation like this before.
I've never had a police chief, not just the department, but the chief, tweet out that he's coming again.
I mean, I think a normal person would be a bit scared.
But I happen to know the law enough to know that we haven't done anything wrong.
And we certainly haven't broken that law.
It would be as ridiculous as the police chief saying he's coming to accuse me of murder, God forbid.
I mean, I just haven't done that.
There's no case.
He's full of it.
He's clearly a political puppet.
Ain't going to happen.
So I think, check out the details at savethetruck.com.